Episode 202: USS Iowa Turret Explosion
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What is the opening banter and podcast introduction?
My local's been going this whole time.
Yeah. I expect to see this
in the final episode.
Flashback.
The Zencaster hasn't started yet.
No. Furthermore, the virtual camera is not recording The screen.
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It is recording nothing.
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that's audition. There's Zencaster. Right. Okay, hold on. Let's see what we A flashback.
Anyway, Liam, I got a Jeep. Yeah, what'd you c what'd you call it?
We gotta do a sync point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, but I
want to talk about my Jeep.
Well, we'll that the we'll do the sync point, then you can talk about the Jeep because otherwise it will be confusing for Devin. All right. All right. Three, two, one, Mark. Okay, good enough. That was crispy. Nineteen
ninety two Cherokee XJ. Oh you're kidding. I am not. Four liter high output. Yeah. OBD one. Five speed manual. Uh man it's a Laredo, so it's got like the the nicer seats and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Manual, everything. Uh you know, crank windows, no crews, no ABS, which is good because I don't want to deal with any of that shit. Um I've already put nice tires on it. Uh it needs push innings, but like it's it's sweet. It was owned by one guy, and that guy was responsible for the deaths of seven people. So it's got really good Well There's Your Problem Providence.
Oh yeah. Uh yeah, yeah, I'd say so. Yep, yep, yep. It was It was
owned it was purchased new by Joe Wilcox, who led the Doomed Denali expedition in the sixties. Wow. Um yeah, he d he didn't drive it very much, so uh, you know, it's got like a hundred and forty two thousand miles. Yeah, yeah, I got a crazy deal on it. So I'm I'm back among the the auto enthusiasts living. So plus it's like You know, Peak Chrysler back when they were good. They were like two years out from inventing the Dodge Viper and, you know, kind of recalibrating the American auto landscape. So it's you know, like that one brief moment where it looked like the end of history was true and America was just gonna like slowly improve forever. We had the Cherokee XJ, we were on our way to having the Viper.
Phil Fledman was president. Once upon a time.
Yeah, that's that was definitely better. Yeah. Yeah,
Mtrack was expanding.
Yeah. Can you imagine can you imagine like that sentence now? Like Amtrak is expanding like new routes and shit. New long distance routes
even.
Yeah. Yeah.
They had the Kentucky Cardinal. They had they had the National Limited. I no, they didn't have the National Limited anymore, excuse me. But
that was actually I think back when uh the Cascades started playing around with the idea of like, what if we did high speed rail on our own trackage? We'll have this ready by like two thousand five.
Oh yeah. Yeah. You know that Florida high speed rail was coming. Uh what else? Um
And and not to blame Brightline because I I I do think that the vast majority of people who get murked by Brightline had it coming, but
I completely disagree, but go on.
But Florida high speed rail was killed by people who would later go on to invest in Bright Line. That's a different episode.
That's that's that's a whole that's a whole kettle of fish right there. That's that's oh boy. Oh some shit happened. Um hang on one second. I just
need to Yeah, there we go.
No, Bright Line Bright Line and like uh Brightline mostly kills people because they're sheep. There are a case the thing is, they do they do anti car propaganda by showing you the like three fatalities caused by some asshole swerving around seven lines of crossing gates, driving into opposing traffic, and then getting, you know, their their base on Ultima completely vaporized by a train. But the vast majority of the people they kill are people who live on one side of the tracks and don't have the car and have to walk across tracks that they don't protect and It just like split apart neighborhoods for like miles on end without any easy access. Uh Yeah, eighty mile an hour trains. Yeah. Eighty mile an hour trains are not like it's kind of like it's like uh it's like a helicopter or something, like a military helicopter or something, right?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening banter and podcast introduction?
0:00–19:46
2
How do the hosts define a battleship and describe the Iowa‑class?
19:46–43:49
3
Why are the turret systems on the USS Iowa considered unsafe?
43:49–1:06:33
4
What legal and mutiny concerns arise from the crew’s reactions?
1:06:33–1:26:31
5
What immediate actions were taken right after the turret explosion?
1:26:31–1:47:43
6
How did investigators develop the sabotage‑and‑life‑insurance theory?
1:47:43–2:12:36
7
What role did the Naval Investigative Service interviews and testimonies play in the case?
2:12:36–2:35:18
8
How did the investigation wrap up and what were the final conclusions?
2:35:18–2:51:46